Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

And in midlife, you know, there's some belief that as estrogen declines, people's spontaneous movement goes down.

And in order to, you know, I think a muscle like this, muscle is like a suitcase.

You open the suitcase and you're going on a trip for four days.

Now, if you're like me, you open the suitcase and instead of packing for four days, you're packing for 40.

And I got five pairs of shoes and three sweaters and two jackets.

There is no way.

that I'm getting my clothes in that small little carry-on.

So of course I close it and this is representation of muscle.

I close the suitcase and everything's everywhere.

I cannot get any more clothes in that suitcase.

Muscle is the same.

So if you are not training

and doing you know both resistance training and cardiovascular both have two different impacts but if you are not dumping that muscle glycogen and utilizing that fuel then when you are eating and opening up your suitcase and stuffing more clothes in there you've not emptied the first trip out and so

Glucose, fatty acids, brown chain amino acids remain in the bloodstream.

They have nowhere to go.

Eventually, it'll get stored as adipose tissue or some, you know, it will have to be disposed of.

And so, you know, back to your original question, low carbohydrate diets, let's debunk it.

Is it good for everybody?

It's not necessary for everybody.

it be helpful yes but i think an even bigger more important conversation is how do we eat for muscle health and how do we define muscle health and how do we begin to think about it so if you are over consuming carbohydrates and let's say you're not even over consuming them but you have done nothing your muscle is already full your muscle glycogen is full